Crown Heights (South)

Neighborhood · Brooklyn

The southern half of Crown Heights, this area runs from Eastern Parkway south toward Empire Boulevard, east of Washington Avenue.

  • 0.72 square miles
  • 50,590 residents, 2020 Census
  • 106 street corners
  • 5 subway stations
  • 12 bus routes

Eastern Parkway, completed in 1874 and now a city scenic landmark, is home to the world headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement at 770 Eastern Parkway, and each Labor Day the neighborhood hosts a carnival celebrating Caribbean culture. Crown Heights is also home to Medgar Evers College, established in 1970, named for the civil rights leader and the youngest of the City University of New York's four-year senior colleges.

Sources: Crown Heights, Brooklyn (Wikipedia); Crown Heights North Historic District Designation Report (NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission); History (Medgar Evers College).

Map

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Crown Heights (South) borders seven areas, and Montgomery Street holds more of its corners than any other street, 17 of 106.

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  • Crown Heights (South)
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • A station in the list
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Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • Botanic Garden / Franklin Av-Medgar Evers College lines 2 3 4 5 S
  • Nostrand Av lines 3
  • Kingston Av lines 3
  • Crown Hts-Utica Av lines 3 4 accessible
  • President St-Medgar Evers College lines 2 5

Getting around

Five subway stations and buses on 12 routes stop in or at the edge of Crown Heights (South).

  • 5 subway stations
  • 1 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 12 local bus routes

Local bus routes

  • B12
  • B14
  • B17
  • B43
  • B44
  • B44-SBS
  • B46
  • B46-SBS
  • B48
  • B49
  • B96
  • B99

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, its corners averaged more police-reported crashes than the average Brooklyn corner.

  • 2,222 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 21.0 a corner, on average
  • 10.5 the average Brooklyn corner
  • 2 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 63 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
52
Turn calming
21
Accessible pedestrian signals
14
Safety Improvement Projects
4
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
1
Enhanced crossings
1

Camera tickets

In 2025 its corners had more red-light camera tickets than school-zone speed or bus-lane tickets.

  • 16,346 red-light camera tickets at three corners
  • 15,628 school-zone speed camera tickets at ten corners
  • 10,004 bus-lane camera tickets at four corners
Most red-light tickets
Bedford Avenue & Eastern Parkway, 9,166
Most speed tickets
Troy Avenue & Eastern Parkway, 5,977
Most bus-lane tickets
Rogers Avenue & Montgomery Street, 5,392

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 50,590 residents in Crown Heights (South), about 70,300 per square mile.

  • 19,762 homes, 2020 Census
  • 3,030 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 2,764 residential lots hold buildings from 1920 or earlier, and 96% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks

Parkland
3.1 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Dr. Ronald McNair Park (1.3 acres), Jackie Robinson Playground (1 acre) and Eastern Parkway Coalition (0.4 acre)

Streets and trees

Trees
3,322 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, American elm and pin oak
Street with the most corners
Montgomery Street, with 17 of the area's 106
Height above sea level
From 43 feet at East New York Avenue & East 91st Street to 147 feet at Union Street & Classon Avenue
Honorary street names
5 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists 24 schools and two libraries in Crown Heights (South).

Public schools
11
Charter and private schools
13
Libraries
Eastern Parkway Learning Center and Eastern Parkway Library

Bike share and public art

By the station list of October 3, 2026, 20 bike-share stations stand in Crown Heights (South). The City's public art inventory lists two works in the area: Joseph A. Guider (1930) and Dr. Ronald McNair (1994).

  • 20 bike-share stations
  • 2 works of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 403 major felonies at places in Crown Heights (South).

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Crown Heights (South)

  • 291 major felonies in 2024
  • 1,569 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Crown Heights (South), the NYPD recorded another 209 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 12.1 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Crown Heights (South).

Map of Crown Heights (South): 10 shaded patches of its streets, each numbered with the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places there in 2025; unshaded areas are not counted on this map.
Major felonies recorded at public places in Crown Heights (South), 2025
  • 5 to 9
  • 10 to 19
  • 20 to 49
  • 50 to 99
  • 100 or more
  • Not shaded: fewer than 5, held back under the rules in How complaints are counted, parks and public-housing grounds, and land in no patch
Each shaded patch is a set of whole street blocks and corners of Crown Heights (South), most about 1,500 feet across, and its number counts the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places on those streets and corners in 2025. The streets along or across the edge of Crown Heights (South) are not shaded. Homes, shelters, schools, child care, health care, houses of worship, hotels, mailboxes inside buildings, private parking lots and garages, buses and taxis, parks and cemeteries, highways, bridges, tunnels, the tramway and places the NYPD did not name count in the figure above for Crown Heights (South) and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precinct
71st
Major felonies recorded at places in Crown Heights (South), 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 159 major felonies at places in Crown Heights (South), against 185 in the same months of 2025.

Sources: the NYPD's Complaint Data Historic, updated April 28, 2026, and Complaint Data Current (Year To Date), updated July 27, 2026, on NYC Open Data. Figures to June 30, 2026.

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.